Portable bath.



PATENTED MAY 22, 1906 DEL ROY P. FOWLEF. PORTABLE BATH.

APPLICATION FILED MAY15, 1905.

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DEL ROY F. FOYVLER, 0F MELROSE, PENNSYLVANIA.

PORTABLE BATH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Eatented. May 22, 1906.

Application filed May 15,1905. Serial No. 260,554.

Be it known that I, DEL ltoY F. FOWLER, a eiiizen of the United States, residing at Melrose, in the county of Montgomery and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Portable Baths, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in portable baths for infants and children; and it consists of a collapsible receptacle or bag fin-med of a waterproof material and so. appointed that it may be readily secured to the rim of an ordinary bath-tub or to a frame especially adapted to its purpose.

The nature of my invention will be more fully understood by reference to the accompanying drawings and to the description thereof as hereinafter presented.

lieferring to the figures of the drawings, Figure 1 illustrates a plan view of an ordinary type of bath-tub with my invention applied thereto. Fig. represents a. longitudinal section of the same, taken on a line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows a transverse section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. Fig. 4. is a perspective view of one of the stay-rods employed in Fig. 5 is a perspwctive view of a portion of the receptacle or bag, showing one of the supportinghooksand the means for adj ustabl-y securing the bag to the same. device as applied to a special form of supp: ,rting-frame; and Fig. 7 shows a detached perspective view of the stay-rods, showing the manner in which they may be joined together.

Referring now to the reference-letters of the drawings, Airepresents a bath-tub of the conventional type, having faucets A A and a waste-pipe A It also has an upper rim or flange A extending somewhat over the framewijn'k of the tub, to which the device forming the subject-matter of my invention is adapted to be fastened.

B is a bag, made of rubber, rubber-coated canvas, or other like waterproof material, provided at its upper sides and ends with open hen-1s b and b to receive detachable Si2.t "IOLlS"U and C The receptacle or bag l) is also provided with. a number of straps D,

each of which is adapted to engage a buckle l), hinged to the hook I), which latter is formed so as to embrace the flange A of the bath-tub. The stay-rods G which support the ends of the bag B, are threaded at Fig. 6 illustrates my their ends to enter correspondingly-threaded lower openings in the hooks D, which, like the hooks D are also fitted to embrace the flange A of the bath-tub.

In Fig. 6 I have illustrated my invention as adapted to a special form of frame E, which may be employed in places where a bath-tub is not accessible. This frame is composed of cross-pieces E E, &c., connected together by upper horizontal rods E E and a centrally-located horizontal rod E to which the cross-pieces are fulcrumed. Where a frame of this description is employed, I prefer to fasten the stay-rods C and C together by a coupling F, which, as shown in Fig. 7, is threaded to engage both of said rods. The bag B is provided with a discharge-nozzle G and plug G, and where a frame such as shown in Fig. 6 is employed the lower thread ed part of the nozzle G may be provided with a rubber hose to fill or discharge the bag, as may be desired.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters. Patent, is;

1. flhecombination witha supportingframe, of side and end stay-rods adapted to be secured thereto, a bag secured to theend; stay-rods and hooks adjustably secured to the sides of the bag and adapted to engage the supp'orting-frame.

' 2. The combinatidii of a supporting-frame, of side and end-stay' rods detachably secured together and adapted to engage the supporting-frame, a bag of rubber or like material se-' cured at opposite ends to the stay-rods and hooks adjustably fastened to the sides of the bag and adapted to, engage the supportingframe. I

3. The combination of a supporting-frame, of long and short stay-rods threaded together'and arranged within the supporting frame, hooks connected to the ends of the short stay-rods and adapted to engage the supporting-frame, a bag secured at its ends to the short stay-rods and provided along its sides with straps, and hooks adjustably se; cured to the straps and adapted to engage, the supporting-frame.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DEL ROY F. FOWLER. Witnesses:

ARNOLD KArz, DAVID S. WiLLIAns. 

